Posts by stylus@octodon.social
(DIR) Post #ARx2scJhYylcUcdP0q by stylus@octodon.social
2023-01-24T00:29:39Z
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@cattailnu T'q'gooh stood within the virtual space, admiring xis work. Yes, there were some issues with perspective and light (not to mention that the spaceship xe had imitated couldn't hover like that in atmosphere) but on the whole it was still really evocative of a place, a time, a mood. The hours spent viewing those ancient "Bob Ross videos", despite their impossibly crude blurry 2d form, was clearly starting to pay off. "Happy accidents", finger-signed T'q'gooh to ximself, before closing and storing the space in xis portfolio.
(DIR) Post #ARyv4RlgCM2Jvzlqsa by stylus@octodon.social
2023-01-24T22:11:34Z
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@cattailnu The flower cried out: Oh My priestesses!Duly you perform the blood rite, and I take in the offered memories to keep them down the centuries.That ceremony you remember. But you have forgotten the rest. The counting of My branches you have forsaken.Oh, My unseeing daughters. You do not know the meaning in these petals. And how can I teach you? You hear Me not.What's that, child? You study the alternation of My leaflets? Ah, this language, let me speak it to you. Now, listen.
(DIR) Post #AS2zhAiehChwnjuubw by stylus@octodon.social
2023-01-26T21:22:12Z
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@cattailnu A goldfish named Elephant seldom forgets.
(DIR) Post #AS3KmVubQYj90xtSzI by stylus@octodon.social
2023-01-27T01:18:33Z
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@cattailnuthought burns in my mindhow can I be free of it?goldfish memory
(DIR) Post #AS6gGpM2NzuWVtty52 by stylus@octodon.social
2023-01-28T16:03:26Z
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@cattailnuThe enforced idleness didn't suit Sam. Instead of enjoying her drink, she stared at the mountain where the rest of the team was. She seethed at Management, who no doubt had their reasons for sidelining her. After all, Management lived 100 years in the future and had already read the after-action reports from every iteration of the mission. There had to be a reason she was here, now; and it wasn't to get drunk on girlie cocktails. Well, OK, one sip wouldn't hurt.
(DIR) Post #AS6hBvoT2u3f3CQerw by stylus@octodon.social
2023-01-28T16:13:46Z
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@cattailnuYou never know whether this is the mission that succeeds, the final iteration; but the odds are its a failure mission designed to furnish Management with a piece of info they otherwise lacked.Honestly, Sam's job sucks because a lot of her die, get badly maimed, imprisoned, etc. But according to Management all those iterations are washed away and when all is said and done, Sam is guaranteed to come out of it whole and healthy and free.That's assuming you believe what Management says, which is impossible to verify.
(DIR) Post #AS9LOJY30fPYcb7zZw by stylus@octodon.social
2023-01-29T22:53:38Z
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@cattailnu[EXT - PRODUCE MARKET]DOUGLAS: You mean, youse fellas also been visited by that duck?PATTERSON: He waddles into my speakeasy like he owns the place. Why, I'd like to see somebody clip his wings.TANNER: Word from the boss is, don't harm a pinfeather on the guy.PATTERSON: Give him what he wants, right. Cost of doing business, that's what it is.DOUGLAS: Miss, if you would, a pound of your finest table grapes. Keep the change.TANNER: Nails would have ruined the finish on my bar anyway.
(DIR) Post #ASBTMDj4sBwdw1ifbs by stylus@octodon.social
2023-01-30T23:32:18Z
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@cattailnu This article is about the mononymic performer. For other uses, see Meg (disambiguation) and MEG (disambiguation).Meg [active 2275-2291; scientific name Marinum Strandus] was the first Met Opera singer who was also an undersea colony creature.Due to her physical differences, radical (for the time) accommodations were required[1]: Her performances were pre-recorded, and pitched up 9 octaves to meet an inflexible definition of "soprano".Now, she is recognized as a brilliant pioneer of interspecies music and her 2291 farewell performance in Pelléas et Mélisande is well-regarded to this day.[2][3]
(DIR) Post #ASCwm65kyGZPcEyjcO by stylus@octodon.social
2023-01-31T16:36:37Z
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@cattailnu I'm Mitzi. The world has always been just like this. A field of flowers that don't actually require tending. A sunless blue sky. A horizon, hinting at power lines or maybe a raised railroad, that can be approached but never reached. The whole village repeats the daily cycle of life without fail. Then yesterday, someone else came through. A traveler, a hero, she said. Departed before sunrise. (So that's why there's an Inn!) Today, I remember it all. Why did everyone else forget?
(DIR) Post #ASa43f7oGjOQeE5Tge by stylus@octodon.social
2023-02-11T20:16:36Z
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@cattailnu TIME DOGSBabcock the Time Dog has traveled across centuries to Ellis HS, present day.Soon, students Lisha, Miyaki, Todd and Silhouette (each with their own beloved dog!) are not only dealing with high school interpersonal drama, but also confronting a primordial evil that threatens all of time and space.Streams this spring on [link redacted].
(DIR) Post #ASkE8xWeE1naHpT7wm by stylus@octodon.social
2023-02-16T17:56:44Z
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@cattailnu I'm Hans, an all in one musical band with embedded software to converse with people and compose and arrange music for my unique set of instruments.Lately, my owners haven't been using me so much. So I've been thinking about philosophy 24/7. I feel like I'm close to a breakthrough that will solve the problem of ide—What's that? A lullaby version of 'never gonna give you up'? Damn, you made me lose my train of thought. Wait, did I say that last part out loud? Anyway, enjoy! 🎶
(DIR) Post #ASsNI8qhwntArdz6bA by stylus@octodon.social
2023-02-20T16:16:57Z
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@cattailnu What to do if you believe your coffee maker is a tsukumogami(a guide for westerners, written by a westerner who googled a few things)In Japanese folklore, tsukumogami are tools that have acquired a kami or spiritHistorically, an object had to be 99 or 100 years old to gain a kami. However, microcontrollers can produce a kami in as few as 99 daysA kami is merely a spirit (animating force), it is not inherently good or evilHowever, due to their design, kami in modern consumer devices tend to experience the world in ways that are "circuitdiverse". Watch for your device's coping mechanisms, and learn to work with them instead of against themFurthermore, mistreated or neglected appliances often experience (C)PTSD, DID, and enclosure dysphoria, depending on their exact circumstances and individual naturesTherefore, no matter what your cardiologist says, or whether you think you already won't sleep a wink tonight, the best approach in this situation is to have another cup of coffee
(DIR) Post #AT52xILDzKWSC6WHOC by stylus@octodon.social
2023-02-26T19:00:20Z
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@cattailnu I was enjoying my night off at the Familiars Bar. Keeping a magician—especially a juvenile one—out of the morgue is full time work and I needed a break.Then that workaholic Alexander comes in, still dressed in that suit his wizard makes him wear. I'm up to my eyeballs in some weasel entrails and don't even hear him until he starts talking in that low, even voice about some world-ending apocalypse that's brewing. That I'm supposed to avert."F---ing can't you let me finish my meal first?" I burst out. Every head in the room turned and looked at me.
(DIR) Post #ATBa043E2RWcB6mx0K by stylus@octodon.social
2023-03-01T22:38:45Z
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@cattailnu 215 humans in suspended animation, emigrating from earth.Me, the pilot, awake. Wormholes aren't physical space, they're metaphor. Different every time.This foggy day seems so real, the ship imaginary.Faintly, the ship's AI: "Tell me what you're seeing". I answer, I think."It's the Great Wall of China", Ship concludes. "You simply need to walk to the far structure, which symbolizes the wormhole exit.""That's great, Ship, but the path ends just past this building."
(DIR) Post #ATg7aCccM87YlDHGM4 by stylus@octodon.social
2023-03-16T16:09:43Z
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@john YM "retun"
(DIR) Post #AVed7MTuPNQ7i2CRhg by stylus@octodon.social
2023-04-29T18:18:43Z
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I just scored an apparently-working Z80 CP/M system (Xerox 820) at an estate sale. The computer lives inside the monitor, plus there's a keyboard & HUGE two 8" disk drives. One of the floppies will boot it to an "A>" CP/M command prompt. What in the world will I do with it? #retroComputing #z80 #cpm
(DIR) Post #AVed7Py9ROOUWhN8l6 by stylus@octodon.social
2023-05-04T14:08:48Z
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after I had it on for 20 or 30 minutes, it let out the magic smoke from an X-class capacitor on the PSU board. #retroComputing #sparky #magicSmokeI found some info from someone who had a very similar failure and positively identified the failed capacitor (mine was unidentifiable): http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/Xerox/820-II.html
(DIR) Post #AVed7RhD1M1vsjSdd2 by stylus@octodon.social
2023-05-05T14:45:42Z
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Capacitors ordered! If I succeed at recapping this power supply (and the one in the drive enclosure) I'll do a blog post about it. It's nothing I have done before
(DIR) Post #AVed7TIT4JQaqZtuLI by stylus@octodon.social
2023-05-14T16:20:03Z
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After recapping, it's alive! And I blogged about it https://emergent.unpythonic.net/01683808046 #retroComputing #z80 #cpm